Staff Reporter:
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Chairman Tareque Rahman yesterday visited the graves of 57 army officers who were martyred in the Pilkhana tragedy in 2009.
He paid homage at the graves of the 57 fallen army officers at the Banani Military Graveyard in the cap-ital here this afternoon.
Brigadier General (Rtd.) Dr AKM Shamsul Islam, Chief Security Officer of former Prime Minister BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and BNP Acting Chairman Tareque Rahman, Atikur Rahman Ruman, a member of ‘Amra BNP Paribar’ and the BNP Media Cell, Muhammad Belayet Hossain Mridha and Ad-vocate Mehedul Islam Mehdi, Special Officers of the BNP Chairperson’s office and Dr. Shah Muham-mad Aman Ullah, Director of the Ziaur Rahman Foundation (ZRF), were present, among others, at that time.
Fifty-seven army officers were martyred during the Pilkhana incident that took place on February 25 and 26 in 2009. Bangladesh lost 57 valiant army officers including the then BDR Director General Ma-jor General Shakil Ahmed, in the tragedy.
Earlier, BNP Acting Chairman Tareque Rahman also visited the graves of his beloved younger brother Arafat Rahman Koko and his father-in-law Rear Admiral Mahbub Ali Khan, at the Banani graveyard in the capital.
